SOCIAL/ETHICAL ISSUES
SOCIAL IMPACTS



KEY QUESTIONS


Who is responsible?
Who is accountable?
What are the consequences?
What are the alternative ethical decisions?
What laws or policies apply?
Users may not trust the computer producers because they may end up entangled into these cases
Link between IT system and social ethical issues
STAKE HOLDERS
  • The government
  • Investors of both companies
  • Other companies which paln to use hitchi's patented technology in their computers
Link between Stakeholders and social/ethical issues
The government
The government's court order shall be involved to solve the dispute

Link between IT system and Stake holders

The IT system and the

MagSil is accountable for this as they did not acknowledge the patent under


IT SYSTEMS
  • The IT system runs as a normal hard disk would; through the use of magnetism. Data is read/written by the read/write heads.However, its read/write sensors are advanced with giant mangnetorisistive and a change in structure. This increases the speed at which the hard drive operates as it can achieve high data densities.

Court order; being sued, losing side pays a hefty fine


Read-write sensor for a computer hard disk drive

Come to a mutual settlement among them


Hard disk drive

Lack of enablement of a patent regarding the hard disk component created by Hitatchi